Free Basketball Shape Sorting Printable
The basketball is a great sport theme for kids. And this fun basketball shape sorting activity works on learning four different shapes.
The free basketball shape printable is a great way to work on seeing the shape and learning the shape name. And have a hands-on shape learning center.
A great center for a basketball theme or a summer sport theme.
The Basketball Shape Sorting Printable is a part of the 20 Free Summer Sports Printables.
The Basketball Shape Sorting is a great addition to the basketball printables and shape printables on the site.
What Is A Shape?
It is a geometric shape like a circle, square, heart, or rectangle. These are just some of the 2D shapes.
Basketball Shape Sorting Printable
The basketball shape sorting printable works on 2D shape names and the geometric shape. It works on finding and sorting the same shape to the correct shape word.
Basketball Hoop For Shape Sorting Mat Printable
You have four shape sorting mats. You have the basketball hoop with the shape word and then kids with space to short the shapes.
Basketball Shapes Printables
You have basketball with the shapes: circle, square, triangle, rectangle on them. You have 6 basketballs for each shape.
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Ways to Use the Basketball Shape Sorting Printable
You are going to see a few ways to use this basketball shape sorting printable.
Preparing the basketball Shape Printables
You are going to want to print the basketball shape sorting printables on cardstock. That will help the shape printables last longer. You can also laminate the shape sorting printables to help it last longer.
If you plan on only using the sorting center one time then you can just print on cardstock.
Setting up a Shape Sorting Center
Below is s simple set up for a basketball shape sorting activity. You have the four sorting mats and the basketballs.
You can set it up with a few basketballs to start with. You might only have one or two shapes for them to sort to start. You can also start with just two shapes mats to start with.
You can give all the basketball and shapes for kids in kindergarten.
Sorting Basketball to the Mats
You can see how easy it is to sort the basketballs to each of the shape mats. You can have kids sort a few shapes and then check how they are doing. And then work up to sorting all the shapes.
Matching the Same Shape
You can also do a matching game for younger kids. You can match the shapes that are the same. You can do one of each shape to make.
Then work up to matching all the shapes that are the same.
You can also set up a big turn and matching game as well. This works great in a pocket chart.
Making AB and ABC Patterns with Shapes
You can also have kids work on patterns with the shapes. With six of each shape, you can do a lot of AB and ABC patterns.
You can see an ABB pattern with the circles and square below.
You can do more complex patterns with older kids and do ABCD patterns. But this gives you a different activity to do with the basketball shapes.
Looking For More Basketball Shape Printables
If you are looking for more basketball shape activities. You can use the basketball shape find. This is a great way to trace the shape and find the shapes on the hoop. These also have shape word you can do as well.
Basketball Shape Find Printable
Easy shape fine worksheets to use with kids. You have shape tracing and finding. They cover shape words and geometric shapes and work great for a Basketball theme.
What you will find in the Basketball Shape Find Printable
- 12 shapes: circle, square, triangle, rectangle, rhombus/diamond, oval, heart, star, crescent, hexagon, octagon.
- Tracing section for each shape and shape word
- Several shapes to dot on the basketball hoop
- 26 pages
- Price: $3
What you will find in the Free Basketball Shape Sorting Printable
- Basketball hoop Shape Sorting Mats
- 6 basketballs for each shape
- Shapes: circle, square, triangle, rectangle
- 4 pages
More Basketball Printables
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Basketball ABC Tracing Strips has all 26 letters of the alphabet. They have uppercase letters and lowercase letters together. There is a basketball on the on each tracing strip.
Basketball Number Tracing Strips has numbers from 0 to 20. You have a basketball on the strips with numbers to trace. There is an example of how to trace the number on each strip. These work great for handwriting centers for numbers.
Sports Dot the Number & Counting: Basketball has numbers 0 to 20 with dot marker number son each page and matching circles to count on the basketball. They come in color and black and white options.
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